Q: Can officers search a room in my residence with the door closed
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Someone rob a man on my street fitting the description of my son. I refused to let them search without a search warrant. They sent 4 offciers to stand in my house until they got a search warrant. They went into my son's room and closed the door to search. No one was allowed to see where they search. They then proceeded to look intoa trunk that i had in the dining room throwing things on the floor. The search turned up nothing and my son was with several family members watching football at the time of the crime. It took us 15 minutes to go out into the streets to find out who actually committed the crime. Five officers harrassed me, my husband and son for approx. 2 hours.
A: If the officers had a valid search warrant when they conducted the search, the officers are authorized and in fact required to do anything the warrant describes. Assuming the warrant required them to search the house for evidence of the robbery, they could open any doors, move anything, and go into any containers that could contain what they were searching for. Now, there may be an issue if the warrant was obviously invalid, but a lawyer would have to look at the warrant to see that.
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